Social Psychology
What is the tendency to change behavior to match a group called?
What is conformity?
Attributing behavior to personality instead of the situation is called this error.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This theorist created the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Pushing unwanted thoughts out of awareness is called this.
What is repression?
The Big Five trait associated with being organized is this.
What is conscientiousness?
This psychologist conducted the famous obedience experiment with shocks
Who is Stanley Milgram?
When actions influence attitudes, this theory explains it.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
Freud believed this part of personality follows the pleasure principle.
What is the id?
Blaming someone else for your own feelings is called this defense mechanism.
What is projection?
Bandura emphasized learning through this process
What is observational learning?
What is it called when people perform better on simple tasks around others?
What is social facilitation?
What type of attribution blames behavior on outside circumstances?
What is situational attribution?
Carl Rogers believed people need this positive support from others.
What is unconditional positive regard?
Returning to childish behavior under stress is called this.
What is regression?
What is self-efficacy?
The loss of self awareness in a group is called this
What is deindividuation?
The tendency to believe good outcomes come from us but failures come from situations is called this.
What is the self serving bias?
This personality inventory is commonly used to assess the Big Five traits.
What is the MMPI?
Giving logical excuses instead of real reasons is called this.
What is rationalization?
This theorist proposed reciprocal determinism
Who is Albert Bandura?
What term describes when people are less likely to help in a group?
What is the bystander effect?
Changing behavior to reduce discomfort between beliefs and actions is known as this.
What is a cognitive dissonance?
According to Freud, the ego follows this principle.
What is the reality principle?
Redirecting emotions toward a safer target is called this.
What is displacement?
This interaction between traits and situations best reflects this perspective.
What is the social cognitive perspective?